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Quite a Gathering Reporter David Hunter Strother remembered that on December 2, 1859, the day of John Brown’s hanging in Charles Town, Virginia, it was unseasonably warm. “The balmy south wind was blowing which covered the landscape with a warm & dreamy haze,” Strother recalled, and it felt more like springtime in the Old Dominion …
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